Question

Question 12
What is hydrogenation? What is its industrial application?

Answer 1

Hydrogenation is the chemical reaction between hydrogen and other compounds in the presence of catalyst. Hydrogenation is used mainly to reduce saturated hydrocarbons. Hydrogenation is an addition reaction. For example: When ethene is heated with the catalyst nickel, it is reduced to ethane.
Industrial application:
$\to$ Hydrogenation is used in many industrial applications. For example: in petrochemical industry, hydrogenation is used to convert alkenes into alkanes (paraffins) and cycloalkanes.
$\to$ It is also used to prepare vegetable ghee from vegetable oils.